ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,919, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BIOMERIEUX (Marcy l'Etoile, France) and BIOASTER (Lyons, France).

"Method for classifying a sequence of input images representing a particle in a sample over time" was invented by Pierre Mahe (Lans en Vercors, France), Meriem El Azami (L'Arbresle, France), Elodie Degout-Charmette (Toussieux, France), Zohreh Sedaghat (La Mulatiere, France), Quentin Josso (Lyons, France) and Fabian Rol (La Verpilliere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying a sequence of input images representing a target particle in a sample over time, includes the following steps performed by the data pr...